Hello again,

So yeah. We really are early with this thing. Anyhow, we have lot of things to consider, for example:

- Our team: So, we seem to have 3 explorers already, but we would need a one more, or that would be the ideal situation.
- Visas to Russia, China ja Mongolia: China and Mongolia are quite easy, Russia ain't. You basically need to have an invitiation to the country or arrange things via travel agency, which costs some euros. It's not really that expensive, so I guess we'll use the latter option.
- Equipment: We might get our gear from www.varusteleka.fi, it's a simple shop that sells all kind of military gear. I've already decided to get german jaeger-backpack from there and proper first aid kit. Yeah, I do know some first aid if it's needed. Though, no one shouldn't blame me if you lose something minor, like your head or both arms due to the "first aid".
- Exact travel plan: First draft is to go straight to Beijing, it would last around 6 days to get there and then spend something like 6 days there. If we get vacations for four weeks, we would still have something like 12-13 days to get back home. So, we could stop at few interesting places on our way back home.

I'm actually really really thrilled about the whole trip. As I said earlier, I've always admired those men who just went to seek for their destiny, simply backed their packs and left their homecountry behind, maybe to return someday. Okay, the whole idea is rather childish and has a huge "romantic" undertone in it, it sounds so cool but in reality it might've been quite harsh and lonely, I don't know, never tried really. So, this is the closest one I can get now. But we will see, if there isn't any really good reason to live safely in Finland, happily ever after, maybe I will find myself from some remote corner of the known world, trying to find myself and to realize what I really want. Just to realize that I'm in some remote corner of the known world.

Oh, yes, I am shameless attentionw****: In case someone actually reads this, please do comment and tell me/us what you wish to know about the whole trip. We might put up some proper introduction-things, if there's really someone who doens't know us reading this blog.

- Ari